The TV program My 600lb Life chronicles a people's lives who are extremely overweight by 100's of pounds, most of whom are over 600lbs in total weight. The characters are seeking solutions to their health issues which are easily connected to psychological factors.
In their journey toward a "normal" life, the specialist doctor instructs them to make small changes that to an average sized person would be nothing unusual but to the patient, produces big results. By sticking to the changes in eating habits and activity the obese patient can easily loose 25 lbs in the first week. It took me 6 month to loose that much weight but to the unusually overweight person it would barely make a dent.
I see my self in much the same light only not in the sense of my weight or even in the matter of having too much of anything but rather in the other direction, namely in the area of scarcity of income and enterprise. At the moment it's scant and slight changes in my behavior and activity can produce for me dramatic effects which to an average person may seem trivial. For someone who scrapes by day to day it can be a big difference.
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